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	<title>Under African Skies!</title>
	<link>http://www.spheniscus.net</link>
	<description>an inquisitive mind</description>
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		<title>Creating Usernames in OpenOffice and Excel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had to create a list of about 200 usernames. Doing that by hand/manually will have taken me some time. I searched on the net and the help files of both excel and openoffice calc.
Here are the fomula&#8217;s I used,
=LOWER(CONCATENATE(MID(A3;1;5);MID(B3;1;2)))
and 
=LEFT(A3,5)&#038;LEFT(B3,2)
The first is rather difficult and took me some time to figure out,
the &#8220;lower&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spheniscus.net/2008/04/22/creating-usernames-in-openoffice-and-excel/</link>
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		<title>Cantenna vs Antenna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea why I spent 400 N$ on an Omni Antenna.
Last night I decided to finally build an Cantenna from cans lying around inmy office, which I have collected over the past few months. Mind you that is like only 4 different size cans.
Some time ago i spent 50 N$ on the N-type [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spheniscus.net/2008/03/05/cantenna-vs-antenna/</link>
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		<title>Do you use OpenSource software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May I make an assumption, hell it is my site after all  
Surely you must be using some kind of open source software right? How otherwise will you stumble upon my blog. Or perhaps your one of the lucky folks searching for an African Safari, getting to my site. Doesn&#8217;t really matter to me, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spheniscus.net/2008/02/15/do-you-use-opensource-software/</link>
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		<title>One reason I use Linux &#038; Firefox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having just moved over to a windows XP box to check out a site in IE. I was reminded why I moved to linux and firefox combination.
Running about 4 windows of IE6, they just suddenly vanish into thin air. No error, no pop-up &#8220;send to Microsoft&#8221;, nothing just gone.
Note that I don&#8217;t claim that firefox [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spheniscus.net/2008/02/15/one-reason-i-use-linux-firefox/</link>
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		<title>Web Searches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a way to start the morning&#8230;
First Google requires the image verification to continue and it happens about 3 times before I actually get to the results. Then when I switch over to Yahoo, it was temporarily unavailable  Great Stuff !!!!
Searching the web has just become a pain.
 
The Yahoo error should clear up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spheniscus.net/2008/01/16/web-searches/</link>
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		<title>Australian Open</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah I missed the opening&#8230;
Luckily the Australian Open website is looking great this with all the content. Good place to keep up to date on what&#8217;s happening.
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		<link>http://www.spheniscus.net/2008/01/15/australian-open/</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu Upgrade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I am sure not going to be downloading that almost 2G to get Feisty Fawn, just to be able to do a upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon. It will take me 2 days to download that on my 128k line  
A fresh install, I reckon will be much faster.
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		<link>http://www.spheniscus.net/2008/01/14/ubuntu-upgrade/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new year has arrived. After a 3 month absence from posting on the blog, I sure hope this year will be more productive  
All is well after the holidays, now it is time to check what can be mended or broken and then mended&#8230;lol
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		<link>http://www.spheniscus.net/2008/01/07/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<title>New Door Sign !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Got this from a friend. I just love it&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.spheniscus.net/2007/09/18/new-door-sign/</link>
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		<title>ADSL router configuration for Namibia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just for reference as per usual. I got my hands on a Netgear ADSL router DG834  that was configured for SA. I tried it here with normal settings PPP over ethernet.
But it just did not want to work. When I had a look in the router status, it was connected but no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spheniscus.net/2007/09/11/adsl-router-configuration-for-namibia/</link>
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